Rummage sales, my birthday & Charlie McCarthy

About 3 weeks ago we headed up to my in laws for their big neighborhood rummage. I took some things with me to put in the sale. The kids and I went on Thursday afternoon and Nate met us there Friday afternoon. It turned out to be a beautiful weekend. The weather was perfect and the kids had a great time playing outside and greeting shoppers that stopped by.

It's nice to make a little money, but I can't stand dealing with hagglers. I thought there would be less in the "big city" than we have here in red-neck-ville. I was wrong. People are relentless. And you wanna know what makes it worse? When you ask $2.00 for something and they haggle with you to take the price to $1.00. You give in and say "ok". THEN, they hand you a $20 freakin' dollar bill. Other than that, the weekend was nice. The kids drank too many grape Crush's. Isn't that what grandma's and grandpa's are for? To feed them sugar and spoil them?

Saturday was my big 35th birthday! I spent my last big birthday (30th) on hospital bed rest with the three amigos. Nate's parents kept the kids while we went out Friday night. We rarely get to go out...and I mean, rarely. But it is pretty much a guarantee when we go visit my mother and father in law's that we get time by ourselves. In fact, I think they want us to go out. That is a nice change. They like when we aren't there to set rules for the kids ;) Saturday morning I woke up to a cute flower cupcake cake. We ate cereal for breakfast followed by cupcakes. Does it get any better than that?

Isabel & Jonah pushing rummage sale strollers

Jasper was perfectly content laying on grandma and grandpa's bed watching Thomas.

And now...Charlie McCarthy. The creepiest doll you'll meet. What is it about that guy? Am I the only one who gets the heebie jeebies around this red mouthed puppet? Apparently this was Nate's while growing up. I think it was intended for us to bring Chaz home, but I think we "forgot" him up there. Jasper took a liking to Charles. And Nate's dad decided to scare the crap out of me with him. I'll admit, he got me good.

Isabel singing